Coulter @ CPAC: I would comment on John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot.' — It's nice to see the conservatives at CPAC embrace and cheer on someone like Coultergeist. She's really a beacon of responsible conservative commentary, no?

CPAC: Giuliani Speaks — Rudy Giuliani is speaking now at the CPAC conference, and he is drawing huge crowds — not only in the Regency Ballroom where he is appearing, but also around every monitor in the exhibition hall. He's keeping the CPAC attendees riveted, and the place is otherwise …

ANN COULTER USES GAY SLUR AT CPAC — Ann Coulter almost made it through her CPAC speech without looking like a complete buffoon. She wasn't funny, she rarely is, but she's an attention whore. Near the end of her speech she said she wouldn't talk about John Edwards because " …

Army Secretary Resigns in Scandal's Wake — WASHINGTON (AP) — Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey abruptly stepped down Friday as the Bush administration struggled to cope with the fallout from a scandal over substandard conditions for wounded Iraq soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Bush Orders Review of Service Members' Care — Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey resigned today amid a burgeoning scandal over the treatment of wounded outpatient soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and President Bush ordered a "comprehensive review" of care for the nation's war wounded …

Lieberman On Appointment Of Kiley: 'It's A Good First Step' — This morning on his radio show, Don Imus questioned Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) about his reaction to the conditions at Walter Reed, saying, "If you're somebody who thought the war was such a wonderful idea, as you did, and continues to support this idiotic exercise...

The Right's Second Look At McCain — With his non-announcement announcement of candidacy on Letterman Wednesday night, John McCain's getting some fresh media attention today, most notably Peggy Noonan's typically frothy take in the (subscription-only) Wall Street Journal.

YouTube Oppo Of The Day — 1. Sen. Barack Obama, speaking in a fairly impoverished Cleveland, saying he wants "everybody here to pony up five dollars, ten dollars for this campaign. I don't care how poor you are, you've got five dollars." — 2. An anti-Giuliani video, just in time for CPAC.

Plame film in works at Warner Bros. — Studio sets movie about CIA leak scandal — Warner Bros. is developing a feature on the lives of Valerie Plame and Ambassador Joseph Wilson, the married couple drawn into a D.C. firestorm. — Plame's status as a CIA agent was revealed …

Libby Jurors Raise Question About Reasonable Doubt — The jury in the Scooter Libby trial sent two questions to the Judge today before leaving early for the weekend. You can view them here. — The one about reasonable doubt is the most interesting. … The jury instruction on reasonable doubt is here.

Honey, I'm Dead! — HOW GOD REWARDS A FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBER. — A female suicide bomber detonated a vest filled with explosives at a university in Baghdad Sunday, killing more than 40 people. If male martyrs can expect to find 72 virgin maidens in paradise when they die, what rewards can female suicide bombers expect?

A new twist to an intriguing family history … WASHINGTON // Many people know that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's father was from Kenya and his mother from Kansas. — But an intriguing sliver of his family history has received almost no attention until now …

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Speaks — Justice Thomas talks about the lasting influence of the man who guided him through his years at Holy Cross and why he's not a beneficiary of affirmative action — Of all the influences in the life of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas …

Reading Hillary Rodham's hidden thesis — Clinton White House asked Wellesley College to close off access — Hillary Rodham, in a 1965 freshman photo when she was president of Wellesley College's Young Republicans, with the cover page of her senior thesis from 1969 on radical organizer Saul D. Alinsky.

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